Yvette Prior

About me

Educator, researcher, psychologist, wife, mother, author, artist, yogi

I have been teaching on and off since the 1990s. I have had many detours on my career track, but the side trails have led to what I needed. Also, teaching in Higher Ed has been a "high" light.

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Soft Skills

agree and all the more to have team work skills developed when the social media outlets might have students behind a device.

Small groups that are safe and focus on material that is within competetnce can be a gift for skill building and course materail exposure - while also helping students make support systems with classmates.

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Correcting Writing Slowly

I liked the point about having stsudents work at corrections slowly. So in each assignment it is not needed to shjow them everythig that needs to be fixed or improved. Work at a few things each time - slow and steady the skills will improve.

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Active learning

Reply to William Myers's post:

I agree - offering variety is key.

and I liked the reminder to have students take notes from the pre-recorded messages, which could then be discusse dor expounded on during class.

I also love how the flipped classroom can meet more needs for students because it might alow more intercation as the teacher is not the sage on stage but the guide on the side.

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Flipping a class

I agree and I think that this is a such a good idea - especially how students can review the recorded lectures as many times as they want.

I can also understand why there might be resistance and confusion with this type of classroom setting - people might misunderstand the learnign envorionment.

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memorable handouts

This is a great idea - thanks. And I bet the colored paper also adds some enrichment (as color often does). Also, I know that many teachers do not always use papers or handouts (they think save a tree in a digital world) but so many times handouts are needed or they just help the lessons come alive.

Sometimes it can be so helfpul to have handouts - and the color tip was auseful one for me today. thanks KM

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Teaching with personalization in mind....

My favorite takjeaway from the adaptive learning module was that teachers can approach their lessons with the aim of customzing. This can get the creative juices flowing and allows us to cater to stduents who often have a mix of needs as they learn. Also, if adaptive learning helsp the stduents to gain a depper graps of material (by being more engaged and by pacing their progress so they learn with less anxiety to know material by rote) well then society is better as a whole because edcuated indiviudals make society a better and richer place. Don't you agree?

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LMS

Wanted to say how interesting I found it that LMS is one of the many tech advances we have for learning adaptively.

Other advances inlcude websites, data aquisition, gaming, cloud based storage and apps, etc. I think this makes for a nice time to be an Educator... lots of options. :) don't you agree?

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Tech Fear

Reply to Anne Clancy's post:

Great idea Anne. Thx for the tip to run thru the tech

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Tech Fear

I think just set realistic goals and learn a little more tech each week. Also, be confident in the fact that you might still be developing your techy skills - it should not pull from your role as trained instructor. So get comfortable and let that exude as you let students know you might still be learning. They will likely respect the honesty (and they will notice it anyhow, so just get comfy).

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Lecture

Reply to marla Schlesinger's post:

I agree - wel saud

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